No, but that's because my tastes have changed, not because they are bad wines. Here is what I found, in the approximate order of my preference: 2002 Panther Creek Pinot Noir White Rose Vineyard , $35. 2004 Brick House Pinot Noir Cuvée du Tonnelier , $45. 2004 Belle Pen te Pinot Noir Murto Vineyard , $35. 2002 St. MORE >>

We like to end the class in style: a giant edition of show and tell and taste. Each participant brings in a wine to present to the class, which means we get to taste about 25 wines that evening. Someone else brought in the Produttori di Barbaresco, Barbaresco 2004 ($30; find this wine ) after trying it at the wine shop Vino. MORE >>

At the dinner I tasted a red called J'en Veux for the first time. Considering the lineup of whites as a whole, I think that they might be as good as any lineup of white wines that I've tasted from the Jura. Anyway, we drank Les Chalasses from 2004 and 2008, and I thought they were both excellent wines. And indeed it was. MORE >>

Thanks to my then girlfriend, now wife BrooklynLady, sometime in 2004 I rediscovered wine. And one day you spend $75 on a great producer's villages Burgundy from 2004, and you realize that it might be true that good producers make good wine in all vintages, but there are better ways to spend $75. still have it, actually. not Turbido! MORE >>

And that’s what Dave Erickson, a site reader in North Carolina who blogs at the Wine Mule , has been doing and he sent in this question about them: We had a tasting of orange wines the other night , and the question came up: How do sommeliers deal with these wines, when they all seem to need anywhere from 4 to 24 hours to become presentable? MORE >>